Urdu Poetry Resources

Most of the links on this page will take you to someone else's web site.

Online Dictionaries

Urdu to English dictionary at eBazm (words in Romanized Urdu)
Dinesh Prabhu's Urdu-English Word List
English to Urdu dictionary compiled by Waseem Siddiqui (meanings in Romanized Urdu)
English to Urdu dictionary at Urduseek (words are in English but meanings in Urdu script)

Discussion Forums and Mailing Lists

Ashaar: Weekly postings of ashaar (couplets) on a chosen topic/theme
Lafz: Daily postings of a word from Urdu, with its meaning and a sher(couplet) where it has been used.
Mehfil-e-Gazal: Daily posting of a ghazal or a nazm with meanings of difficult words.
ALUP (alt.language.urdu.poetry): Usenet discussion forum for urdu poetry. A great place to learn and discuss all things related to Urdu poetry.
eBazm - Moderated mailing list maintained by Manjeet Bhatia. You can post your own poetry or that by others.

Technical Articles on Urdu Poetry

Novice Nook
Urdu Ghazal: An introduction
Urdu Nazm: An introduction

Audio Sites

Mehfil-e-Mushaira

Poet's Pages

Amir Khusro
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Ghalib's Letters
Gulzar
Ibne Safi
Iqbal Azeem
Iqbal
Jaun Eliya
Javed Akhtar
Meer Taqi Meer
Obaidullah Aleem
Pirzada Qasim
Saud Usmani

Ghazal Singers' Pages

Jagjit-Chitra Singh

Jagjit-Chitra Album List - maintained by Subir
Jagjit & Chitra Page - maintained by Rajeev
Niraj's Music Experience - Jagjit Singh
The Great Ghazal King - Jagjit Singh

Hariharan
Pankaj Udhas
Talat Aziz
Begum AKhtar

English Translations of Poems

Tarjumah - On Urdustan.com, maintained by Kashif.

Websites in Urdu

Dabistaan : maintained by Saleem A Khanani
Deewan-e-Ghalib - maintained by Asad Faizi

Personal Web sites with Urdu Poetry

Abhay's Aashiyaana - maintained by Abhay Avachat. Hasn't been updated for a long time
Ahmed Safi's page
ArtiKlaan
Hamid Syed's Web
The Internet ASAD Archives - maintained by U.V. Ravindra (Posts made by Abhay Avachat on the rec.music.indian.misc newsgroup)
Ghazals and nazms posted in India Discussion Digest - maintained by Uma Ramamurthy
Wonderful World of Urdu - maintained by Atif Mumtaz

Urdu Poetry Bookstores Online

India Club - Most of the popular books on Urdu poetry are available here. Books are in Urdu and/or Hindi script.
India Book House - Most of the Urdu poetry books are in Urdu script.
Amazon - A search on Urdu poetry yields mostly English translations and anthologies.
Sang-e-Meel - Based in Lahore, Pakistan. All Urdu poetry books are in the Urdu script.
Aaina-e-Ghazal - Online bookstore for the book by the same name. It contains meanings for over 9000 commonly used words in Urdu poetry.

Book Publisher Info (India)

Diamond Publications
Hind Pocket Books
Rajpal and Sons
Star Books
Sterling Publishers
Vision Publications

Bibliography

Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal (Red Book) by K.C.Kanda
Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal (Yellow Book) by K.C.Kanda
Masterpieces of Urdu Nazm by K.C.Kanda
Masterpieces of Urdu Rubaiyat by K.C.Kanda
Meer Taqi Meer - Selected Poems by K.C.Kanda
Sare Sukhan Hamare by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Mah-e-Tamaam by Parveen Shakir
Mirza Ghalib by Prakash Pandit series
Meer Taqi Meer by Prakash Pandit series
Ali Sardar Jafri by Prakash Pandit series
Firaq Gorakhpuri by Prakash Pandit series
Ghalib aur Asghar ki Shaayari by Amar Dehlvi
Intekhab by Anees Amrohvi